So I just used the first of the month where unknown, and January whereunknown.

I then had a method on the model object to return the format based on thestored date and the resolution.

It worked for what I needed it for,

Tim.

> Hello,>> I'm designing a model which is a collection of texts. Some of the> texts will be things like books, with a YYYY date of publication, and> some of them will be articles or transcripts with a mmddyyy date of> publication/broadcast.>> I'd like to structure it somehow so that when I view the list of texts> in the admin site, I see something like this:>>> Title Date ...other> fields> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Sample Book 1984 ...> Sample Blog Post 1/14/2010 ...>>> Can I (should I?) store these two kinds of dates in one field? If I> can't (or shouldn't), is there some other way to accomplish this> (that's not too complicated)?>> Thanks,> Karen>> --> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups> "Django users" group.> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com.> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.> For more options, visit this group at>http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.>>